Nov 29, 2008
Conclusions The technique offers a minimally invasive route to the midline anterior skull base, allowing the surgeon to avoid using brain retraction and reducing manipulation of the large vessels and optic apparatus; hastens postoperative recovery; and improves patient compliance. Further assessment and refinement are required, particularly because of the potential risk of CSF leakage. Other studies and longer follow-up periods are necessary to ascertain the benefits of the technique.
PMID: 19035705 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Neurosurgical Focus)
Nov 25, 2008
Washington, Nov 25 (ANI): Researchers suggest that drop in potassium levels caused by blood pressures drugs may help explain why people on those medicines are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes.
They found that BP drugs helpfully accelerate loss of fluids, but also deplete important chemicals, including potassium, so that those who take them are [...]
Nov 24, 2008
Diabetes insipidus is an unusual case in patients who underwent open heart surgery. In this article, we aimed to present our experience of performing an atrial septal defect operation in a patient with diabetes insipidus who drank 30 l of water and urinated almost the same per day. (Source: Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery)
Nov 24, 2008
There are four themes in this teaching exercise for Professor McCance. The first challenge was to explain how a premature infant with Bartter's syndrome could survive despite having such a severe degree of renal salt wasting. Second, the medical team wanted to know why there was such a dramatic decrease in the natriuresis in response to therapy, despite the presence of a permanent molecular defect that affected the loop of Henle. Third, Professor McCance was asked why this patient seemed to have a second rare disease, AQP2 deficiency type of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus. The fourth challenge was to develop a diagnostic test to help the parents of this baby titrate the dose of indomethacin to ensure an effective dose while minimizing the likelihood of developing nephrotoxicity. The missin...
Nov 23, 2008
Washington, Nov 23 (ANI): A tablet-form garlic-based drug can treat diabetes types I and II, according to a new study.
The drug is based on vanadium and allaxin, a compound found in garlic.
The study has been published in the new Royal Society of Chemistry journal Metallomics.
When Hiromu Sakurai and colleagues from the Suzuka University of Medical [...]
Nov 23, 2008
Washington, Nov 23 (ANI): Centenarian offspring kids of parents who lived to be at least 97 years old live longer, have lower risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes as compared to a similarly-aged cohort, says a new study in the November issue of Journal of American Geriatrics Society.
The study is the first to assess the [...]
Nov 23, 2008
Melbourne, Nov 23 (ANI): Eating an egg every day can raise the risk of developing diabetes, a shocking new study has found.
Whats more, intake of more than a couple of eggs a week can make the condition worse in those who already have diabetes.
Scientists in Australia have urged that type 2 diabetics and people at [...]
Nov 23, 2008
Washington, Nov 23 (ANI): The healthful phytoestrogen nutrients that are often associated with fruits and vegetables also exist in foods of animal origin, according to a new study.
Now the first comprehensive study of phytoestrogen content in foods has identified the best sources of these nutrients.
In the study, Gunter G. C. Kuhnle, Laure Thomas and [...]
Nov 22, 2008
Putrajaya (Malaysia), Nov.22 (ANI): Malaysias National Fatwa Council has declared that yoga practices which involve physical movements, worshipping and chantings are haram (prohibited) in Islam.
The Star reported that the announcement was made on Saturday.
Recently, Professor Zakaria Stapa, a lecturer of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysias Islamic Studies Centre, advised Muslims who had taken up yoga to [...]
Nov 21, 2008
Melbourne, Nov 21 (ANI): Eating an egg every day can raise the risk of developing diabetes, a shocking new study has found.
Whats more, intake of more than a couple of eggs a week can make the condition worse in those who already have diabetes.
Scientists in Australia have urged that type 2 diabetics and people at [...]
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